My company puts on several conferences throughout the year with various guest speakers in various geographic locations. I am looking for a semi-simple solution for capturing the video presentations, camera video, and audio from the soundboard.

I have sued the Epiphan DVIVGA Recorder. It seemed to work well in testing, but when we went to a conferences and set it up, it failed. The unit was bad and I returned it.

I am also looking at the Sonic Foundry MediaSite ML as well.

Anyone have any experience with this? My end-goal would be to get a solution in place that would be reliable and easy enough for the staff onsite to setup / run this. IE I don't want to travel to these sites to record the conferences.

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Hmm, could the question be re-worded or re-framed? Not sure if "various geographic locations" means it is a travelling conferences, or if it is a web meeting type conference which allows various locations to meet.

Camtasia is the first thought for screen presentations. It is popular, and low priced—

Hmm, could the question be re-worded or re-framed? Not sure if "various geographic locations" means it is a travelling conferences, or if it is a web meeting type conference which allows various locations to meet.

Camtasia is the first thought for screen presentations. It is popular, and low priced—

You didn't state your budget for this project, so I'm going to suggest the best solution I have implemented in the past. I prefer Polycom video conferencing solutions. Not only does it give you a lot of flexibility, it also allows you to record your presentations/video calls. The camtasia solution is going to require adapting a PC to your presentation and either driving it from the PC or wedging it into the video and audio cabling to capture the streams, which may require a more technical person to know how to accomplish this. I used the Polycom setup on a prepped cart with all the equipment I needed on the single cart to present meetings, perform training, play PC/DVD or any other inputs onto the presentation cart. It's a chunk of money to lay down, but Polycom has been at this longer than most of the other companies you have seen in use anywhere for presentations and collaboration. Let me knwo what you think about this suggestion......

Sorry all... my questions wasn't very clear. These are in-person conferences to 50 - 200+ people in various countries/states that last 8 to 12 hours. The setup is a standard inperson presentation/conference model... plugin laptop to projectors and speak into a mic connected to a PA system.

In the past I have used Epiphan DVIVGA recorder (which failed on me at a conference last summer) and am currently looking at the SonicFoundry Mediasite ML HD Recorder.

Budget - not really set, but Ideally around $2k to $5k.

Basically looking for suggestions / reviews of system similar to the Epiphan and Sonicfoundry units that others have used. I know I could put together a system that I would have no problem running onsite/in-person, but I'd like:

A purpose built software/hardware solution that is easy enough for not-tech staff to run (not a pieced together system that requires several steps to put together and operate)

Capture 2 video feeds (DVI/VGA and S-Video)

Capture audio from soundboard line-out

Includes a streamlined process for mixing of video and export (files will be hosted online for streaming after the conference)

I was good with my theory until you hit the 12 hour storage and carry-on size. LOL I don't see you doing this without piecing multiple devces into a small rack, but someone that's really A/V might have a different opinion. Good luck with your project.

I have a county government looking for a conference recording solution but doesn't want to pay Polycom pricing. Which model Epiphan did you try? This setup will be a fixed location, so I would like to give this idea a shot. Thanks for the mutual info sharing....

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